Law roundup

Whitefish police arrested an extremely intoxicated 39-year-old man about 9 p.m. Saturday after a bartender reported to police that the man had his 5-year-old son with him while he was drinking. Police said the bartender served him one drink, then removed it from the bar when he realized how intoxicated the man was and that the boy was with him.

When police arrived, they said, the man could not stand up long enough for questioning, so they took him into custody. The young boy stayed with dispatchers at the station until his mother could pick him up. The man was cited for disorderly conduct, and endangering/abandonment/neglect for the treatment of his son.

What sounded like a phone call from a woman in danger turned out to be an accidentally dialed phone, and a situation where everything was more than fine between her and the man in the home.

A man called police suggesting that the red Christmas lights strung across the streets be turned off at night for the sake of traffic safety. Turns out that five years ago, his friend ran a stoplight because she could not distinguish it from the holiday decorations.

Barking from a dog playing with a boy in his yard early Saturday afternoon prompted a disgruntled neighbor to call police.

Officers received 24 calls for help between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Flathead County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a report of sexual intercourse without consent. A woman left a south Kalispell bar with a man who promised to give her a ride home, she said, but he instead took her to his home. Her boyfriend reportedly came and got her later, deputies said.

Slick roads that came with Saturday’s snow and chilly temperatures played a part in several accidents. Dispatchers had 19 calls reporting icy roads, slide-ins, fences that were hit, a rollover and assorted other accidents.

After a deputy gave him a ride home from a tavern on Montana 35 East, a man who thought his car was missing discovered that another acquaintance had it.

Verbal threats were reported at a bar outside Coram.

Two family members on Jensen Road fought over a dog until they were separated for the night.

A man and his son hunting near Daisy Creek at Thompson River got separated, so the father called the sheriff’s office. Sanders County authorities handled the father-son reunion.

Snowballs being thrown at vehicles irritated someone calling from Martin City.

The low-hanging wire over South Cedar Road turned out to be a phone line.

There was a broken mail box on Crescent Road.

Deputies received 144 calls for help between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Kalispell police kept busy with theft arrests on Saturday. Three cases were at a supermarket on East Idaho — a 15-year-old girl for theft, tobacco and alcohol possession, along with a 22-year-old woman for theft and possession of dangerous drugs; a 26-year-old man for theft and an outstanding warrant; and two 19-year-old men for theft and a warrant each.

Another theft arrest was a 20-year-old man at a sports store on Hutton Ranch Road. Yet another was an 18-year-old woman at a clothing store in the shopping area east of U.S. 93 North.

A woman called to say her brother was having issues with his soon-to-be ex-wife and was on the way to the police station. His wife was driving there, too, the caller said. Turned out to be an argument over a PlayStation.

Two complaints came from the same business at the corner of Idaho and Main Saturday night. In the first, customers complained of panhandlers outside the store. In the second, people reportedly were shouting profanities at customers and a minor appeared to have alcohol in a truck parked there.

Officers gave the final warning about loud music to a Ruddy Duck Road resident about 12:30 a.m., cautioning that another complaint would draw a citation.

A Third Avenue West resident came home early Sunday to find the door jammed and open, but nobody in the residence. There is a suspect.

An early-Sunday traffic stop ended with arrests of an 18-year-old man and 19-year-old woman for minor in possession, and an 18-year-old man for DUI and minor in possession.

The window of a Tahoe was broken out on Windriver Drive, but nothing was missing.

Somebody reportedly broke out the back window of a vehicle on 10th Street West and took $25 worth of food and a child’s toy that was intended as a gift.

Officers received 52 calls for help between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police dealt with three reports of thefts from vehicles on Third Avenue East and Sixth Street West. In one instance, the vehicle’s window was broken.

Two girls were arrested for shoplifting at a Nucleus Avenue supermarket Saturday afternoon.

Officers received 13 calls for help between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.